“Incredibly, Intimately Personal”: ‘Nuclear Family’ Tells Story Of Lesbian Moms And Daughter Caught In Monumental Custody Battle — HBO TCA

“At first I didn’t want to necessarily make a documentary out of this story. I was thinking, in the beginning, it should be a narrative film,” Russo-Young commented during HBO’s TCA presentation on Wednesday. “Eventually, when I realized I needed to tell it as a documentary, part of that was because I felt that a documentary could get me closer to the truth of understanding my own feelings.

“The birth mother was a lesbian and that wasn’t seen in a very positive light,” Russo said, reflecting on how the judicial system viewed the case in that earlier era. “It was always deemed that the best circumstance in which a child should be raised is with a mother and a father. And, in fact, Mr. Steel raised that argument–that it’s always in the child’s best interests to have a father.

“It was interesting to me, fascinating really, that everyone that I interviewed on Tom’s side was so specific in their beliefs,” Russo-Young said, “and was really trying, I felt, to still change my mind and to have me see if from Tom’s perspective.”“The [series] is incredibly, intimately personal,” Cogan observed. “It was a gift that Ry came to this with such a strong background in scripted storytelling… She was able to separate from her emotions and see the narrative as a storyteller.

For those closest to the case–Russo-Young and her two moms–the film has provided an opportunity to think about dramatic changes in American society over the course of just 30 years.

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